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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Other nations driven out of Canaan because of their wickedness—Moses rehearses rebellions of Israel, and tells how he mediated between them and the Lord—On two occasions he has gone without food and water for forty days.
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Hear,</span> O Israel: Thou <i>art</i> to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 33: 54 (50-56); Deut. 12: 10 (10-19).">possess</a> nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 13: 28.">fenced</a> up to heaven,
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A people great and tall, the children of the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 11 (10-11).">Anakims</a>, whom thou knowest, and <i>of whom</i> thou hast heard <i>say,</i> Who can stand before the children of Anak!
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Understand therefore this day, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <i>is</i> he which goeth over <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 4: 14.">before</a> thee; <i>as</i> a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/3b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB subdue them before you.">bring</a> them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath said unto thee.
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Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blessings.">righteousness</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 17: 38 (32-38).">brought</a> me in to possess this land: but for the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/9/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sin.">wickedness</a> of these nations the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> doth drive them out from before thee.
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Not for thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/5a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ezek. 36: 22; TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a>, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Understand therefore, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou <i>art</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stiffneckedness.">stiffnecked</a> people.
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&#182; Remember, <i>and</i> forget not, how thou provokedst the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">rebellious</a> against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Also in Horeb ye provoked the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to wrath, so that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was angry with you <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/8a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR and would have.">to</a> have <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 21 (14-33); Ps. 66: 11 (10-12).">destroyed</a> you.
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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, <i>even</i> the tables of the covenant which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> made with you, then I abode in the mount <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 24: 18; Ex. 32: 1; Ex. 34: 28.">forty</a> days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> delivered unto me two tables of stone <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="2 Cor. 3: 3; TG Scriptures, Writing.">written</a> with the finger of God; and on them <i>was written</i> according to all the words, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Manifestations of.">spake</a> with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/9/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 10.">day</a> of the assembly.
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And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, <i>that</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> gave me the two tables of stone, <i>even</i> the tables of the covenant.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 7 (7-10).">corrupted</a> <i>themselves;</i> they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
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Furthermore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it <i>is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 14; Jacob 4: 14.">stiffnecked</a> people:
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Let me alone, that I may <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 10 (9-10).">destroy</a> them, and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 9: 5; Alma 5: 57; D&C 20: 83 (82-83).">blot</a> out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
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So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant <i>were</i> in my two hands.
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And I <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 19 (19-20).">looked</a>, and, behold, ye had <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 23; Ex. 32: 8; Neh. 9: 18.">sinned</a> against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, <i>and</i> had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had commanded you.
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And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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And I <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/18a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB lay prostrate (also v. 25); Ex. 32: 11.">fell</a> down before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Evil.">wickedly</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to provoke him to <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/9/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a>.
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For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was wroth against you to <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 10 (10-11).">destroy</a> you.  But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 12.">hearkened</a> unto me at that time also.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was very <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 22 (21-24).">angry</a> with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
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And I took your <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 20.">sin</a>, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/21b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR crushed.">stamped</a> it, <i>and</i> ground <i>it</i> very small, <i>even</i> until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
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And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 7 (4-7); Num. 11: 1 (1-2), 34 (21-34).">provoked</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to wrath.
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Likewise when the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 14: 2 (1-45); D&C 84: 24.">rebelled</a> against the commandment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
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Ye have been <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rebellion.">rebellious</a> against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> from the day that I knew you.
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Thus I fell down before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> forty days and forty nights, as I fell down <i>at the first;</i> because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had said he would destroy you.
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I <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 32 (31-32).">prayed</a> therefore unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, O Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, destroy not thy people and thine <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Inheritance.">inheritance</a>, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
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Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stubbornness.">stubbornness</a> of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
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Lest the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 12.">land</a> whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
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Yet they <i>are</i> thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/9/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 13.">people</a> and thine <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/9/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Inheritance.">inheritance</a>, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
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